With players and coaches in the second week of a three-week dead period before they get started practicing officially for the 2017 football season, we’ll kick-start more of our statewide preview with 10 key questions that have piqued our curiosity the most. Go inside for first indications about preseason rankings of top teams, impact of […]
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All-State Baseball: First Team
With the No. 1 and No. 2 overall choices in last month’s MLB Draft plus two from Huntington Beach who also were high draft picks, including Mr. Baseball State POY Hagen Danner, this year’s 36th annual Cal-Hi Sports All-State Baseball Team may have as many no-brainers as there’s ever been. Still, it’s not easy for […]
More MLB All-Stars From California
There aren’t that many this time despite the hoopla surrounding leading vote getter Aaron Judge from Linden High and the New York Yankees, but here’s a list of the others besides him. For more on Aaron Judge when he attended Linden, CLICK HERE. Jason Vargas (Apple Valley) He broke into the Major Leagues in 2005 […]
Mr. Baseball 2017: It has to be Hagen
It was a situation of competing precedents in this year’s race for the state’s longest-running State Player of the Year honor for baseball, making it one of the most difficult decisions ever in perhaps the most talent-laden season ever for Southern California. In the end, local consensus carries Hagen Danner of Huntington Beach over the […]
More Baseball State Players of Year
Chula Vista Eastlake’s Grant Holman might even surpass some of the totals next year that State Player of the Year Hagen Danner put up this year at Huntington Beach. Holman, named as this year’s State Junior of the Year, leads this year’s group of other state players of the year. He’s joined by Kyle Ashworth […]
MLB Draft: Top two are SoCal preps
It’s the first time two players from CIF Southern Section schools go 1-2 in the MLB Draft after Royce Lewis and Hunter Greene are selected in those positions during Monday’s MLB Draft. It’s not the first time it’s happened for California. Go inside to read about the 1980 and 2000 MLB Drafts and for a […]
State Stat Stars of the Week
Baseball fans everywhere now know the name Hunter Greene, but before the MLB Draft he hopes to get Notre Dame of Sherman Oaks far in the CIFSS Division I playoffs. Although he’s not pitching anymore this season, Greene hit three homers last week in his two final regular season games. Another baseball stat star is […]
NEW Baseball State Top 20
We are presenting these rankings after most of the major pre-Easter spring break tournaments are done, including the National Classic, Boras Classic for Northern California, the Mike Morrow Lions tourney in San Diego, the Fresno Easter Classic and even the IMG Classic in Florida. All of those created results of course that greatly impacted the...
NEW Baseball State Top 20
Notre Dame of Sherman Oaks gets a monster bump after beating previous No. 7 Harvard-Westlake twice, but the Knights kind of take Thousand Oaks right up the charts with them. Go inside to see why. Other new teams in this week’s rankings include unbeaten Redwood of Visalia plus an emerging No. 1 team in the...
SoCal Baseball: 25 Best, 25 Years
To match a NorCal feature that we presented on this site in April and first produced for our partners at SportStars Magazine (it was their idea), here’s a list of the 25 best high school baseball players from the last 25 years for Southern California. Many of these 25 have been MLB All-Stars, one got […]
